A city rife with rumors. A failed printmaker. A vial full of inadvisable choices.
As a glowing imperial ship brings scrutiny to a city of scholars, a failed printmaker stuck running the family bakery turns to a stolen magic vial to escape an unwanted marriage.
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“Tomorrow Is a Difficult Proposition” available to read at Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
An immortal cosmic being falls in love with a mortal ship's captain and loses her in the vastness of time and space.
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Gears of an intelligent universe
Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
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OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty
My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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What I Wish School Had Taught Me about Operating as a Human Being
More than a decade and a half has passed since I graduated high school, and I still find myself rehashing all the areas that my formal education failed me. Sometimes...
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The Judgmental Advice Column: Friends and Movie References
If someone hasn't seen a movie that you like, it says everything about them as a person. The Judgmental Advice Column tackles friends who don't get movie and TV references.
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That’s a Kris Problem: when others refuse to use my gender-neutral name
What do you do when others refuse to use your chosen name the instant someone who ranks higher in the patriarchy shows up with the same name?
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The Little Passive Mermaid Lady: Why Ariel is Actually Terrible
In Part Two, The Little Mermaid's Ariel relinquishes her badassery and delivers on the promise of feminist nightmare I had been expecting.
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The Little Badass Mermaid Anthropologist: Why Ariel is Actually Awesome
One thing I wasn’t expecting from The Little Mermaid? To find the title character herself even remotely interesting, let alone a beacon of competence and badassery in the midst of a literal ocean of incompetent and evil associates.
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Income tax, vigilantes, and other things I didn’t know about Prohibition
I assumed that renting a six-hour documentary when I have a toddler was a ridiculous act of optimism. Surely, in these tiring times, my partner and I would lack the...
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